Via The Keyboard; Through A Laser Scanner - Symbol PTC-1800 Product Reference Manual

Chapter 3 Configuring TN-3270/5250
A bar code is a series of vertical bars
and spaces used to encode
information in a machine-readable
form. They are used on nearly every
item in business today.
See the information provided by
your supervisor for the specific
bar-code types your PTC-1800 has
been programmed to recognize
(several of those listed above).
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Via the keyboard

The PTC-1800's keyboard can be used to enter data.
See Chapter 6 for a description of each of the
PTC-1800's keys.
1. Press the data keys to enter alphabetical or
numeric data into the PTC-1800.
2. Press the Send key.

Through a laser scanner

Data can also be entered with the PTC-1800's laser
scanner. When you scan a 1D bar code, the PTC-1800
is programmed to read, while the PTC-1800 and
scanner interpret the data and store it in the
PTC-1800's memory.
Bar-code types
If your PTC-1800 contains an internal laser scanner,
that can scan and interpret these bar codes:
•
BC412
•
Codabar
•
Code 4
•
Code 5
•
Code 11
•
Code 39
•
Code 93
•
Code 128
•
EAN-8
•
EAN-13
•
Industrial 2 of 5
•
Interleaved 2 of 5
•
MSI/Plessey
•
UPC-A
•
UPC-E
•
UPC/EAN 2 & 5 digit
add-on
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